Asus x205ta - Anyone shrunk the recovery partition?

Read this on another forum :

if you create a USB recovery drive and then reinstall the software and choose "yes" when asked if you want to repartition, the recovery partition shrinks to 5GB

Anyone tried this with success? Re-partitioning would erase all data right? Would I need to re-install all my programs?

 

I haven't tried shrinking the recovery partition so I don't know if it's possible. If you try what you have suggested, let us know how it turns out. It would seem to me that there is no extra space in the recovery partition, and therefore does not lend itself to being shrunk. It would be smart to save an image of your disk before you start messing around, so you could get the system back to where it was if necessary. Are you aware that this computer uses WIMBoot? If not, you should study up on it. WIMBoot acts directly on the compressed Windows system files that are in the recovery partition when booting windows. This is a whole different scheme from the way Windows has been installed and booted classically. There is only one purpose for WIMBoot, and that is to maximize disk space on systems that have little disk storage, so if Microsoft and Asus have gone to the trouble to use WIMBoot on this computer, then it would seem to me that they would have been careful to not leave any unused space in the recovery partition.

 

Well I decided just to go ahead and do it. In order to get the option to "repartition the drives" it's necessary to restore from a USB backup drive, so I created that first, set the USB stick as the boot disk in the bios, and ran through the reset procedure. I clicked "yes" to repartition the drives, and sure enough when I booted into Windows the recovery partition had shrunk to 5.5 gb.

What I should have done was then try and reset from the internal recovery partition, but I didn't run that test I'll obviously keep my dongle around for safe keeping just in case.